Example sentences of "[vb pp] [pron] [conj] [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This case was so complex and difficult that it filled many books of written record and there was so much opposing evidence that it was difficult to get at the truth , but he at last clarified everything and settled it with such skill and wisdom that all commended his extreme cleverness . |
| 2 | ‘ Jack must have caught him and locked him in there . ’ |
| 3 | If we examine their structure , we shall perceive the way in which the wishful purpose that is at work has mixed up the material of which they are built , has rearranged it and formed it into a new whole . |
| 4 | And why should the palm be so thickly clotted , almost as if another 's hand had lifted it and smeared it into the blood at the throat ? |
| 5 | He had skirted it and approached them from behind . |
| 6 | Which brought her back to the sack and to the Friar who had carried it and left it in their care . |
| 7 | ‘ They will find out I 've done nothing and flog me for it . ’ |
| 8 | Paddy is wonderful , a 16.3hh grey gelding who has been everywhere , seen everything and done everything from hunting to eventing . |
| 9 | It was he actually whom Simon had asked to be the co-respondent — bogus co-respondent — when they were concocting their divorce , it was about him that the judge had scolded her and given me to Anna . |
| 10 | The vicar says that a young Larusa , Masai after all , has stabbed him and beaten him with a stick and the whole town is talking about it . |
| 11 | Now here , lying on her bed while St Margaret held his dragon power in check , Maggie knew she had indulged Fenna too long , that she had fed him and petted him into overweening size and pride . |
| 12 | Her sister had been to see her and made her very tired and various strangers had moved her and pummelled her in a familiar manner that made her angry . |
| 13 | The sweat that had begun in anticipation of what she might encounter in the street now ran in fear of her mother 's rage ; Nunzia 's eyes had gone hard and wrinkled like black olive pips when Rosa had produced the plover , and she had clucked impatiently with her tongue when Rosa lied and said her grandfather had shot it and presented it to her . |
| 14 | His agent , Peter Müller , had prepared it and left it in one of the embassy ‘ letter boxes ’ for collection . |
| 15 | The philosophy of LMS was rehearsed in the Coopers & Lybrand Report ( 1988 ) and the government has now adopted it and enshrined it in legislation . |
| 16 | However , shortly before the List 's publication , I received a visit from Harold Evans , then the editor of the Sunday Times , who came to breakfast and rather slyly asked if I had seen it ; to which I replied that I had not seen it and knew nothing of its contents . |
| 17 | And Hilderbridge lay in the sunshine , its slate roofs all turned to planes of silver , its spires sharp needles , as if a silversmith had made it and dropped it in the valley between the meadows and the moor . |
| 18 | They have accepted us and used us for the furthering of the Kingdom here in Taquaral . |
| 19 | AB still appears shorter than BC even after I have measured them and found them to be equal . |
| 20 | All these years he had had it and kept it for safety and secrecy 's sake inside a boring medical book . |
| 21 | Its huge success grated even more , especially as it had been a Labour paper until Murdoch had bought it and turned it into a cornerstone of his international media empire . |
| 22 | Aye it was bought it and presented it to the island . |
| 23 | So out you go You know people initially work using networks , and then if they do n't have somebody that corresponds to something which they 've got to do then they perhaps will phone the university or the poly and say , ‘ Have you got anyone that knows anything about jam fritters or whatever it is , we want to do a piece because it 's current , ’ and somebody 's unearthed in that particular way . |
| 24 | After all , the inspector himself admitted wondering whether Nicola had learnt or been given something that put her in danger . |
| 25 | They will offer us Mozart 's music as he would have played it and heard it in his own day . |
| 26 | Whenever there has been a whiff of financial scandal in the past , the Opposition , very much to their credit , have raised it and brought it before the public , and there has been a great hue and cry about it . |
| 27 | Rather than dropping his company 's commission bearing charge completely , he would have preferred to have reduced it and moved it from the front to the back end of his unit trusts — that is , charging investors as they leave the fund rather than as they enter . |
| 28 | He made coffee , then found the piece of paper Roxborough had given him and took it to the phone . |
| 29 | For a moment she was taken aback , realising for the first time that she had n't explained herself very well , then , gathering her wits together , she retorted briskly , ‘ If you had n't assaulted me and accused me of being a burglar I would have told you that the Svend I 'm looking for is a student who met my sister at the Roskilde music festival and afterwards entertained her and her friends here in this apartment for several nights . ’ |
| 30 | Rather , she must have inherited it or bought it at a jumble sale for the sake of something to cover herself as a rest from her everlasting black or perhaps ( most likely ) found it in a drawer of her newly married bedroom , chosen for her by Uncle Philip as suitable for his wife to wear on Sundays . |